Jaws dropped and hands went up in the air after the unveiling of Mantis on “The Masked Singer.”
Medusa, Gargoyle and Mantis, who experienced formerly been saved all through the current ninth period, faced off in the course of “Battle of the Saved” night on April 26. All through Wednesday’s episode, two contestants ended up unmasked — with a single leaving the panelists speechless.
When it came to acquiring out who Mantis was, Robin Thicke initially guessed Dennis Quaid, Nicole Scherzinger imagined it was Steve Buscemi, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg figured it was Kevin Bacon, and Ken Jeong said it was Brendan Fraser.
They were being all erroneous — it was “La Bamba” star Lou Diamond Phillips.
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“Robin…I really do not imagine I’ve ever seen a response out of you like this,” host Nick Cannon stated.
Thicke reported, “I love Lou Diamond Phillips. When I was ideal at that youthful boy age, two of my favorite motion pictures had been ‘La Bamba.’ My god, that movie experienced a large influence on me. I listened to the soundtrack everyday. And then ‘Young Guns,’ that was my thing.”
The singer extra that he was not anticipating to see Phillips but all the recollections of escalating up, watching and admiring the actor crept up. “What an honor to have you in this article.”
McCarthy Wahlberg also claimed that she and her spouse, Donnie Wahlberg, were being not too long ago chatting about him because the actor worked on “Blue Bloods.”
Even now stumped, Scherzinger quipped, “We come to feel truly stupid, Nick.”
Phillips, in the meantime, shared that his 15-calendar year-old daughter Indigo made him want to be part of the display simply because she and her close friend “watched this show religiously.”
“But you fellas have experienced just such wonderful, shocking, preposterous company,” he ongoing, including in part, “So it has been a joy. It has been a pleasure to be on his display.”
The panelists also improperly guessed who the Gargoyle was. Whilst numerous guessed athletes, the NFL participant less than the mask was Los Angeles Chargers huge receiver Keenan Allen.
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“I was so close,” Thicke mentioned, following guessing fellow Charger Joey Bosa.
Allen shared how he’s “always had a passion” for singing and was bummed that he had to depart the levels of competition.
“Growing up, I usually been in choir. My mother made me sing all the time,” the athlete claimed. “Definitely often had a enthusiasm for it. I adore singing all over the homies, to the girls, of course.”
He included that he was “way additional nervous” remaining on stage than on a football area. “I was hoping not to go household,” he reported. “I did not want to go home.”
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